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EPALE promotes French-speaking cooperation

The French-speaking coordination set up at the time of EPALE's creation continues to develop.

In fact, since its official launch in April 2015, the French-speaking national helpdesks (NSS) have cooperated to present a page bringing together all the publications in French, from all countries especially France, Belgium and Luxembourg, in as consistent and complete a way as possible, thanks to a pooling of knowledge and information in the sector of adult education and training.

This cooperation is also based on exchanges of good practice during the shared participation of events, as well as by a communal eye being kept on other pages, with relevant translations being shared with you.

The European Commission encourages Member States to develop synergies to allow for coherent and effective policies, and to achieve a better quality of learning.

EPALE's NSS teams work together to allow professionals throughout the French-speaking landscape to share, exchange and cooperate, in order to improve adult education and training.

In this context, the blog, in the same way as the platform, targets in-depth debates on current European themes, but focuses on practical applications and examples of good practices. It questions the structures and funding of adult training policies which are facing the challenges of insertion, integration, qualifications and employment within the society of today and tomorrow, key elements of these French-speaking debates.

The implementation of this blog illustrates both the recommendations of the European Commission on the exchange of good practices and the UNESCO recommendation ((Réf. : CL/4067), inciting the 'conclusion of multi-stakeholder partnerships, which would contribute to providing an environment conducive to good governance, which should involve all the public authority players, civil society organisations and the private sector (…) affected by adult training and education, including those who organise the teaching and training and recognising skills at local, regional, national and international levels'.